Sailing across seas of blood, from Spain, Cortes conquers the Aztecs
in 1519, bringing them the word of God ( gold, just add the L or El !)

The Aztec tradition of the Little Feast of the Dead, honoring dead
children and the Great Feast of the Dead, honoring dead adults, in the
ninth and tenth month, respectively, was incorporated into the Christian All
Souls and All Saints Day, which is now known as "Dia de los Muertos" or Day of the Dead.

Franciscan friars were charged with the spiritual conversion of the
Aztecs. They burned pagan icons destroyed shrines and imprisoned Aztec
priests.

In this painting we see the dead children in the afterlife riding in
coffin cars through a surreal and symbolic version of history, as they
approach Mexico's ultimate spiritual destiny in the form of the
catholic church, with it's stained glass doors depicting the Day of the
Dead sugar skull inviting them in, but within the dogma will burn all
pagan thought from their minds.

Ironically we see a strange similarity between the disembodied heart
of Aztec sacrifice and the Catholic Sacred heart dripping with blood
"it's a small world after all"